To close $3B shortfall, HART to seek another bailout for embattled rail system
HART to seek another bailout for financially troubled rail system By Rick Daysog | March 14, 2021 at 5:26 PM HST - Updated March 15 at 12:56 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Despite the financial toll of the pandemic on Hawaii taxpayers and the state budget, the rail authority said it will likely seek another bailout from the state Legislature.
With the troubled project facing a new shortfall of up to $3 billion, Joey Manahan, director of government relations at the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, said HART may have to seek an extension to the 0.5% general excise tax surcharge beyond 2030.
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NOLANVILLE â James Wilkins grew up dirt-poor during the Great Depression of the 1920s and â30s, quitting school after sixth grade to go to work and help his parents support his seven brothers and sisters.
When the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941, the young man from West Texas who was picking cotton and beans as he approached his 21st birthday knew immediately what he had to do.
He enlisted in the Army and was soon on his way to basic training at Fort Sill, Okla.
âMy country was in the war, and they needed me,â Wilkins said recently from his home in Nolanville, where he has lived since 1980. âBack then, you had to be 21 to enlist, so I had to get a telegram sent from Mom to allow me to go in.